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Instead, the Canadian Kuitenbrouwers wound up on a farm in Quebec where, Peter’s mother and stepfather whimsically decreed, they would thenceforth make maple syrup, what the author calls “the national lifeblood” of Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday that would thenceforth be celebrated on the last Thursday of every November.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2018

The speculation appears to have originated with Patton Oswalt’s Twitter, and then spread thenceforth:

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2016

In theory, the nationalisation of the Bank in 1946 reduced its powers considerably; certainly interest rate decisions thenceforth became the prerogative of chancellors until 1997 and independence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2012

Dionysius decided that the year of Christ’s birth should, thenceforth, be the year 1 anno Domini, or the first year of Our Lord.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife